Keyi Zhang: Sentiment

Keyi Zhang's (M.Arch. '25) project argues that the current architectural design profession is focusing on known typologies and responding to site conditions, context, and programmatic questions with a strong reliance on what seems to be trending at the moment. It is imperative that we as designers and architects expand our mandate and consider material flows, temporal conditions, and the overall life-cycle of the structures and material assemblages that constitute what we refer to as the architectural project. The project aims to propose the phase changes of material flows and reflect on the impact such changes have on the morphological character of urban conglomerates, as these projects become embedded within environments over time.